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Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 September 1913, Page 1

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« THE N.Z. FARMERS' CO-OP-ERATIVE DISTRIBUTE rin TTTI WEEKLY REPORT. Wellington, August 28. The potato market is over-sup-plied, and values cannui laii lower, as bedrock has been leacued, and tho margin left for the snipper is a doubtful quantiiy. inere are still excellent seeu lines onering, and the price is lo.v. a lew local onions are still coming in, and both Australian ana Japanese are also on the market. 'lue supplies of pigs have fallen oit very considerably, and little business is doing. Eggs are in fair uemand. Wheat is holding lirm, but the oat values are unchanged. An excellent demand is reaching us for linseed oil cake meal for calf feeding. Grass seeds are in fair demand, Western Wolths rye being especially enquired for. Eruii.—New Zealand apples are now almost done, and the few arriving sell at high figures. Vegetables. — Cauliflower have now risen, and are selling more freely. Cabbage are getting more plentiful. Wc have received the first shipment of Nelson green peas which sold at -Js per peck. Special grass seeds.—A client in the North Island making a speciality in growing certain grasses has for sale crested dogstail, cocksfoot, Yorkshire fog, meadow foxtail, also emerald rye corn. All double dressed, and of exceptional quality. We shall be glad to send ! sample and particulars to anyone j requiring same. Potatoes, seed—Up-to-dates and Northern Star, £4 to <£5; Gamekeeper £5 10s; Sutton's Discovery £5 10s per ton. Potatoes. —Prime £0 10s to £4 per ton. Onions.—Prime, £3 10s to £4. Cabbage, 'Js to 4s; Spring cabbage 5s to Gs per sack. Carrots. -Choice 4s (id to 5s 6d per sack. Cauliflower. —Choice Us to 7s; others 4s to 4s Gd per sack. Parsnips.—ss to Gs per sack. Rhubarb.—Gs to 8s per dozen. Swedes.—2s 3d per cwt. Turnips.—White 2s per sack. Lettuce. —Choice 2s to 2s 6d per case. Nelson green peas. —iis per peck. Apples*.— I Cooking, Ts to 8s 6d per case; dessert 10s to 12s Gd. " Cheese.—Best factory mediums skl to Gd per lb. Eggs.—Fresh is per doz. Dressed pork.—TO's to 90s, Gfd;

90's to 100's, 6id; baconers, 6d; choppers (heavy) 4d per lb. iioney.—4d per lb. .beeswax. —la Gd per lb. .Fungus.—4£d per lb. Walnuts.—7d per lb. Tallow.—Casks 24s Gd to 28b 3d, tins, 2iJs to 25a cwt. Poultry.—Cockerels, 5s to 7s for good birds; liens, 3s 6d to 4s Ud; good table liens, ss; good Imm vy ducks, 7s Gd; Indian Itunneis, 6s to Us 6d per pair; Turkey gobblers, Is per lb; hens, lOd per lb live weight. Maize.—4s 9d per bushel. Wheat.—4s Gd per bushel. i'eed barley.—3s to 3s 4d bus. Pollard. —£7 per ton; 10s less for ton lots. Bran. —£5 5s per ton; 10s less for ton lota. Barley meal. —£7 10s per ton; 10s less for ton lots. Pure pea meal. —£7 5s per ton. Mollasses in casks. —£4 10s per ton, or 26s per 5-cwt cask; 6s 6d per cwt. case. Clialf.—Oaten sheaf, £5 5s per ton. Hay.—Prime £4 to £5 10s ton. Sucrosine. —£7 per ton in 200 s Meat and bone' meal.—l7s per 100, 9s per 50, and 5s per 251b bag. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Linseed oil cake. —Nuts, genliue, 13s cwt. Meal, 13s 6d cwt. Oats. —Feed, 2s 9d to 2s lid; good feed Algerians, 9d; Duns, 3s per bushel. Oats. —Crushed, 3s 3d per bus. Russian Cape seed barley.—3s Gd per bushel. Seed, Cape barley.—3s 6d per bushel. , Seed oats.— Specially dressed Algerians, 3s 8d per bushel; Gartons, Sparrowbills, Duns, Storm Kings, 3s fid per bushel.